‘I don’t know if she was aware of that before cooking it for dinner’
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- Published on Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Photos courtesy of the Beautiful Plains Archives. Jackie Dalton remembers spending the summer playing games at the Neepawa Creamery.
By Rick Sparling
Neepawa Press
For the past three weeks, Rick Sparling has shared memories of growing up in Neepawa during the 1950s and 1960. This final week features memories of the Dalton sisters.
Jackie Dalton’s (Schwab) memories of growing up in Neepawa are summed up in the e-mail she sent me, as follows:
Neepawa was a great place to grow up in. I remember going any place and every place and never having any doubts or fears. I was all over that town. Spent a lot of time at the skating rink. Mr. Wilkie would always help us kids get our feet warmed up after skating for hours. Our feet would be so cold and he would rub them for us and then tell us to jump on our toes around the office to get the blood circulating in our feet again. We didn't want to warm them up too fast otherwise they would hurt even worse.
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Looking back - 1986: Tree planting spree puts extra life into downtown
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Photo courtesy of Neepawa Press Archives. 30 years ago; Thur. Oct. 16, 1986; Tree planting spreads on Main Street Neepawa.
By Cecil Pittman
Neepawa Press
Week of October 19, 2016
80 years ago, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1936
Preparations have been made for the flooding of the school board lot behind the Neepawa hotel for an open-air rink for the school children during the winter.
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Stop signs just not cutting it
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- Published on Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Photo by Tony Eu. One of the four intersections surrounding Hazel M. Kellington Elementary School. The four intersections are controlled by four-way stops signs, but some are saying they aren’t enough.
By Tony Eu
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Living on one of the corners around Hazel M. Kellington Elementary School (HMK), Jim Suski has seen people run the stop signs at both corners without slowing down. Now, he and several other community members are trying to do something about the traffic behaviour around the school. He believes implementing a school zone speed limit reduction to 30 km/h could help prevent accidents around the Neepawa school.
The change would have to be implemented by the Town, as the school board has no authority over road regulations.
Historic home remains part of family’s legacy
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- Published on Saturday, October 15, 2016
Photos courtesy of Gerond Davidson. Above left: A picture of the home from 1896. Left to right: Aunt Nell, Bert, Thomisina, cousin Aimmy Sirett, Robert and Aunt Ethel. Above right: The Davidson house, as it appears to this day.
